Usage / Role
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Major offensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2023Tennessee
Jabari Small
RB • 5'11" • 213 lbs • Memphis, TN, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Jabari Small leans balanced backfield option traits and 50.3 efficiency.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a back
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
89
Elite ceiling indicators
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Tennessee
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Tennessee
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: LSU
Player Story
Jabari Small built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a running back from Memphis, TN wearing No. 2, spending time with Tennessee. The clearest part of Jabari Small's career was his backfield work: 2,118...
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- Committed To
- Tennessee
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2026
Jabari Small, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Tennessee. Jabari Small leans balanced backfield option traits and 50.3 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 2,365
- Rushing yards
- 2,118
- Receiving yards
- 247
- Touchdowns
- 26
Quick Answers
Jabari Small quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Tennessee · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 2,365
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 41 games
- Best season
- 2021 Postseason · Tennessee
- Top game
- LSU
- Recruit profile
- 5-star · Grimsley · Tennessee
- High school pipeline
- Grimsley · 11 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 2 · Senior
- 2023 Scrimmage yards rank
- 515 scrimmage yards · RB 188th (top 27%) · SEC 49th (top 18%) · National 429th (top 17%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Tennessee | 6 | 141 | 117 | 24 | 0 | 36 |
| 2021 Postseason | Tennessee | 11 | 182 | 180 | 2 | 1 | 71.3 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Tennessee | 11 | 687 | 612 | 75 | 8 | 71.3 |
| 2022 Postseason | Tennessee | 13 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 68.8 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Tennessee | 13 | 802 | 696 | 106 | 14 | 68.8 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Tennessee | 11 | 515 | 475 | 40 | 2 | 53.9 |
Related Context
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Jabari Small played RB for Tennessee. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jabari Small recorded 2,118 rushing yards, 247 receiving yards, and 26 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Tennessee.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason
Tennessee paired 869 primary output with 60.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Postseason role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 60.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2023 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Purdue
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2021 Postseason · Tennessee
Games
11
Scrimmage Yards / G
79
Efficiency
60.6
Usage
21.2
Consistency
64.1
Best Game by takeover score
Purdue
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Purdue: 182. Bowling Green: 122. Pittsburgh: 24. Florida: 81. Missouri: 38. Ole Miss: 95. Alabama: 47. Kentucky: 55. Georgia: 49. South Alabama: 73. Vanderbilt: 103
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Purdue: 27 by 71.4. Bowling Green: 23 by 55.3. Pittsburgh: 9 by 25.2. Florida: 12 by 61.6. Missouri: 3 by 100. Ole Miss: 22 by 45.4. Alabama: 11 by 24.9. Kentucky: 4 by 100. Georgia: 12 by 42.5. South Alabama: 11 by 69.1. Vanderbilt: 15 by 71.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins78.2 · Games = 5 · -1.5 vs Losses
Losses79.7 · Games = 6 · +1.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Purdue
Best efficiency game
100 vs Kentucky
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 12/30 | @ Purdue100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yards | L 45-48 | 26 | 180 | 6.90 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6.7 |
| Sat 11/27 | vs Vanderbilt100 rush yards · 2+ TD | W 45-21 | 15 | 103 | 6.90 | 2 | — | — | 6.9 |
| Sun 11/21 | vs South Alabama2+ TD | W 60-14 | 11 | 73 | 6.60 | 2 | — | — | 6.6 |
| Sat 11/13 | vs Georgia | L 17-41 | 12 | 49 | 4.10 | 0 | — | — | 4.1 |
| Sat 11/6 | @ Kentucky | W 45-42 | 4 | 55 | 13.80 | 1 | — | — | 13.8 |
| Sat 10/23 | @ Alabama | L 24-52 | 7 | 8 | 1.10 | 0 | 4 | 39 | 4.3 |
| Sat 10/16 | vs Ole Miss | L 26-31 | 21 | 92 | 4.40 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4.3 |
| Sat 10/2 | @ Missouri | W 62-24 | 3 | 38 | 12.70 | 0 | — | — | 12.7 |
| Sat 9/25 | @ Florida | L 14-38 | 11 | 59 | 5.40 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 6.8 |
| Sat 9/11 | vs Pittsburgh | L 34-41 | 8 | 18 | 2.30 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2.7 |
| Fri 9/3 | vs Bowling Green100 rush yards | W 38-6 | 22 | 117 | 5.30 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5.3 |
Player Story
Jabari Small story
Jabari Small built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a running back from Memphis, TN wearing No. 2, spending time with Tennessee. The clearest part of Jabari Small's career was his backfield work: 2,118 rushing yards, 418 carries, 24 rushing touchdowns, and 247 receiving yards across 41 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with Tennessee. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 247 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 41 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Tennessee.
The arc is straightforward: Jabari Small moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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Tennessee
2020-2023
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Tennessee | 141 | 50.4 | 8.8 | — |
| 2021 Postseason | Tennessee | 869 | 60.6 | 21.2 | 728 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Tennessee | 869 | 60.6 | 21.2 | 0 |
| 2022 Postseason | Tennessee | 840 | 50.2 | 21.1 | -29 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Tennessee | 840 | 50.2 | 21.1 | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Tennessee | 515 | 50.3 | 16 | -325 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ LSU
Week 6 · W 40-13 · Conference game
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
130
Scrimmage Yards
86.3 takeover
130 scrimmage yards and 34.8 usage.
#2
@ Purdue
Week 1 · L 45-48 · Postseason
182
Scrimmage Yards
86 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
182 scrimmage yards and 30.3 usage.
#3
vs Austin Peay
Week 2 · W 30-13
109
Scrimmage Yards
84.5 takeover
Win with 109 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
109 scrimmage yards and 26.4 usage.
#4
vs Florida
Week 4 · W 38-33 · Conference game
122
Scrimmage Yards
81.6 takeover
Win with 122 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
122 scrimmage yards and 34.4 usage.
#5
@ Vanderbilt
Week 15 · W 42-17 · Conference game
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Scrimmage Yards
72.6 takeover
Win with 57 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
57 scrimmage yards and 11.9 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Postseason · Tennessee
869 primary output · 60.6 efficiency · 21.2 usage
71.3
#2
2021 Regular Season · Tennessee
71.3
869 primary · 60.6 efficiency · 21.2 usage
#3
2022 Postseason · Tennessee
68.8
840 primary · 50.2 efficiency · 21.1 usage
Milestones
4
100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
6
2+ TD games
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